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I'm new to Raspberry Pi. I am trying to develop a media player that would use a library like libvlc to do the decoding. Now the problem is that I can't get the hardware acceleration going...

I have read a lot on the internet and but no one seems to really know.

Has anyone got it working? Could you please share how?

Solution: I have successfully compiled VLC with hardware acceleration on Raspberry and posted a tutorial on my blog! For all interested here's the link: VLC hw on Pi tutorial

Helder AC
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If you would like to learn about OpenGL ES used on Raspberry Pi here is a interactive walk through with examples.

You can find out more about OpenGL at opengles-book

That can be useful for the GUI and at the moment you do not need X to run them (in some ways nice but in other not nice)

You would also need to implement hardware decoding video using the available (and if licensed options) spoken about on the charities site.

Piotr Kula
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I would recommend OpenElec. It's an open source media player distribution and works very well out of the box on a 256MB Model B RasPi, able to play media files from a USB key or over a network.

There are installation images (and source code) available from the website and there is a RasPi compatible image available by automatic download with BerryBoot (multi-image bootloader). Very easy to configure and a makes a great starting point for development of either your own system or a module within OpenElec itself.

Nathan Dunn
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